they will hurt our economy. they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment rolls. this is not an abtraction. people will lose their jobs. >> you have told wusa9 you are scared of these cuts. you are angry and here's a way you can be heard even more clearly by the people who need to hear you. you can join our petition. should congress be penalized if federal workers are furloughed due to sequestration? you can weigh in on wusa9.com. so far 660 letters written so far to congress. a letter you just wrote posted at 5:48 this morning, get to work and do the job you were elected to do. that is out of virginia's eighth district. they are coming in fast and furious. >> when you hear 800,000 workers being laid off, people think that's just hear in washington, d.c., federal workers. it's across the country. federal workers everywhere. government installations, everywhere. this affects the entire country. >> that's just the pentagon. that's justed pentagon. -- just the pentagon. i was actually studyin